Re: Changing database to SQL from DDS

["Richard Theis" <theis_richard@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Vern wrote:
> I think there is little to be gained by going to SQL, just to go to SQL.
> DDS has all the functionality (and more).

I firmly disagree with the last sentence: there are MANY MANY DB
possibilities unachievable thru DDS.  Just to name a few:
in tables:
User Defined Types, BLOBs, CLOBs, DataLinks (no native IO in RPG/COBOL)
in views:
exception joins, right joins, calculations, use of functions (scalar,
column, User Defined), group by, ...etc

> RPG can use SQL tables and views, but not indexes, IIRC, for native
> IO. This precludes the benefits of keyed processing in RPG. (I could be
off
> here.)

Yes, you are: a non-EVI index can be directly processed in RPG !

Richard THEIS
iSeries  Education, France